On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote: > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not > understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same > result. This is very baffling to me. If I change the URL to just > youtube.com, it tries to work till the redirect to www.youtube.com and > then stops dead.
The host name is youtube.com. The 'www' is just a prefix for humans to recognise; it has no real function any more, as far as I know. -- Regards, Peter.
